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On Tuesday afternoon the King returned to London. Communications between

the King and various members of the Cabinet took place through the agency of Lord Stamfordham, and within a few hours it was announced that the King had sent for Mr. Stanley Baldwin and that Mr. Baldwin had accepted the Premiership. There is no doubt that the Cabinet Ministers consulted had for the most part expressed a very strong feeling that • in the present circumstances the Prime Minister ought to be in the House of Commons. Had this not been so it would have been difficult, of course, to overlook the strong claims, on the grounds of both experience and intellect, of Lord Curzon, who may justly be said to have been the only other candidate in the running for the Premiership.

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